The Department of English is proud to announce Prof. Nadia’s recent book, Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, has been named this year’s Modernist Studies Association’s Book Prize Winner. […]
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Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s Latest Book Shortlisted For MSA Book Prize
We are proud to announce Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s most recent book, Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, has been shortlisted to receive the Modernist Studies Association’s Book Prize. Each […]
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Graduate Student Sarah Ross Named AGHI’s 2020 Humanities Blast Fellow
The Department of English is proud to announce Sarah Ross, a PhD Candidate in English at Johns Hopkins, has been named the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute 2020 Humanities Blast Fellow, […]
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Graduate Student Jo Giardini Receives Yale LGBT Fellowship
The Department of English is proud to announce graduate student Jo Giardini has received a Yale LGBT Studies Research Fellowship for Spring 2021. This fellowship supports scholars from any field […]
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Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s book on short list for MAAH Stone Book Award
Professor Nadia Nurhussein of the English Department has had her book, Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, selected as a finalist in this year’s MAAH Stone Book Award. This […]
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Statement from the English Department
The Johns Hopkins Department of English has watched with horror the continued state-sanctioned murder of Black Americans, and the violent repression of principled dissent that followed. We condemn the militarization […]
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Blast Courses Offered by English Graduate Students
The Department of English is delighted to announce that five English graduate students have been chosen to help inaugurate a pilot program of humanities courses this summer. Sponsored by the […]
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Professor Nadia Nurhussein named 2020 Finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History
Named after lawyer, author, and women’s rights activist-intellectual Pauli Murray, this prize recognizes the best book concerning Black intellectual history (broadly conceived) published between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019 […]
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Professor Mary Favret Named Vice Dean
The Department of English is proud to announce effective July 1, 2020, Professor Mary Favret will be the vice dean for graduate education, and centers and programs in the Krieger […]
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More 2020 Graduate Student Publications
This is the second of two reports on recent publications by our current graduate students. We’re proud of all their accomplishments. Sede Makonnen has had two essays appear recently. “Our Blackamoor […]